Tire and rim for vehicle-wheels.



. PATENTED JULY 5, 1904. J. F. PHASE & E. SGHUMAGHBR.

' TIRE AND RIM FOR VEHICLE WHEELS.

APPLICATION FILED D150. 21, 1903.

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I v'xo MODEL.

No. 764,497. PATENTED JULY 5, 1904.

- J. F. PHASE & E. SGHUMAGHBR. TIRE AND RIM 011 VEHICLE WHEELS.

APPLICATION PILED D120. 21, 1903. vHO MODEL. 2 BHEBTB-8HEET 2.

UNITED STATES Patented July 5, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN FRANCIS IEASE AND EBERHARD SCHUMACHER, ()F DARLING'ION,

ENGLAND.

TIRE AND RIM FOR VEHICLE-WHEELS SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,497, dated July 5, 1904. Application filed December 21,1903. Serial No. 186,119- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN FRANCIS PEAsE and EBERHARD SOHUMACHER, subjects of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Darlington, in the county of Durham, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tires and Rims of WVheels for Motor-Cars, Velocipedes, and other Vehicles; and'we do hereby declare the following to be a full. clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to providea rubber tire in conjunction with a suitablyshaped rim which can be used as a pneumatic tire or otherwise and to further provide in connection with such tires and rims toothshaped indentations, such as notches or corrugations, adapted to prevent circumferential displacement of the tire within the rim.

In order to clearly indicate in what manner.

our said invention can be carried into effect, we will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the annexed sheet of drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are transverse sectional views of two modifications of rubber tires and rims as designed and fitted together in accordance with our invention, Fig. 3 being a front elevation of part of the rim, showing a series of indentations for the prevention of circumferential tire-slipping.

In the figures, a is the metal rim of the wheel, 6 the rubber tire, and c the pneumatic tube. What we have termed the two inner ends of the rubber tire are the parts I) 6 which are in the form of circumferential beads or shoulders of irregular or any suitable shape, such asthat shown in Fig. l or as modified in Fig. 2, the rim a being correspondingly furnished with circumferential extensions or recesses a a to accommodate the beads or shoulders Z) 6 By a proper adjustment of these parts we attain the result that when the pneumatic tube 0 is inflated and the rubber tire sprung out the beads or shoulders I) 6 thereof are pressed against the inset parts a a" of the rim extension and the tire supported in tensile contact with the pneumatic tube.

In Fig. lwhen the pneumatic tube is deflated the tire I) slips back into the rim a to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, the tire being supported on the outset parts a a" of the rim extensionsa a.

In Fig. 2 the tire I) is seated upon an inner rubber lining (Z and simply retains the same position with or without the support of the pneumatic tube.

In the modification as shown in. Fig. 1 it is essential that the space at 0 shall be as restricted as possible, for these reasons: that when inflated the pneumatic tube will extend into each space a and when deflated it is desir-able to afford as little distance as possible for the tire to slip back to reach the support of rim at a a".

In the modification shown in Fig. 2 it is essential to obtain between the tire?) and inner lining (Z as near an approximation to actual contact at all times as possible. It is therefore preferable to restrict the size of the recesses a a of the rim to whatever is suiiicient for the insertion of the tire, which will be offected by first threading the bead or shoulder into position on one side of the rim and then by suiiiciently compressing the width of the tire to thread in the opposite bead or shoulder into the other side of the rim (5.

In the case of motor-cars it is found that thetangential strain on the tire is sufiicient to give trouble by producing circumferential displacement thereof in the rim. To overcome this objection, we provide the'rim with projections f, as shown in Fig. 3 and in dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2. The tire is provided with indentations, notches, or corrugations corresponding in shape to the projections f, which fit therein, thereby 11 reventing the circumferential displacement of the tire.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a tire provided with grooves or indentations and with projecting ears, of a rim provided with projections adapted to engage said indentations and bent over fiatable tube located between said tire and said to engage said ears, and an inflatable tube 10- rim, substantially as described.

cated between said tire and said rim, substan- In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures tially as described. v in presence of two witnesses.

5 2. The combination of a tire provided with JOHN FRANCIS PEASE indentations and with projecting edges, a rim made of two pieces of material, one bent over EBERHARD SCHUMACHER' the other and provided with projections adaptl/Vitnesses: ed to engage said indentations and having its FREDERICK W. LANDALE,

1O ends bent over to engage said ears, and an in- J ENS E. D. PETERSEN. 

